Moment 1

• (heavily comfortable, but not cosy and homelike)
• (a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech)
• (a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior.)
• (a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited.)
• (an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town.)
• (not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive.)
• Giving us the port, Edna?


  Birling - wealth, class, power
• Mummy


  Sheila - class, changes, family
• Yes, ma’am.


  Edna - class
• (half serious, half playful)

  Sheila
• And I’ve told you – I was awfully busy at the works all that time


  Gerald – monosyllabic
• When you’re married, you’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business


  Mrs. B
• You’re squiffy.


  Sheila
• It’s one of the happiest nights of my life


  Birling - pronoun shows self-importance
• You’re just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted.


  Birling - tension with Eric
• I speak as a hard-headed business man


  Birling
• The Germans don’t want war.


  Birling
• I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business


  Birling
• unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.


  Birling
• Just let me finish, Eric.


  Birling - Eric tries to argue
• What happens in Moment 1?


  Birling’s speech before the inspector arrived